"Alone together forever", hope in the desire for companionship in Samuel Beckett's plays

• Main Author: Khoirunnisaa Abdul Ja’afar
• Other Authors: Kevin Riordan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62761
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis reconciles the contradiction between the two ways of reading Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Come and Go, Ohio Impromptu, and Krapp’s Last Tape by proving that hope stems not from the relief of knowing that the world is still familiar. Rather Beckett’s plays are hopeful because they display...